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This timely study explores the dilemmas of US intervention within the broad context of the history of foreign policy in America and with a specific focus on the Obama administration. Framed by three dominant US narratives centred on the desire to feel good, safe, and strong, Ryan and Fitzgerald analyse the tactical use of language and 'lessons' of history and how these have shaped Washington's decisions, discourses, policies and interventions in particular ways. Using landscape as a metaphor, the book contrasts the impressionistic depiction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria against the more granular actuality of internal dynamics, people and forces, to reveal how the gaps between American understanding, necessarily centred on the beholder's view of the landscape and local realities, frequently undermine US strategies and interests.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Central government

• Full title: Obama, US Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention
• Author: David Fitzgerald, David Ryan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 151
• EAN: 9781137428554
• ISBN: 1137428554
• ID: 05189293
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 354 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. October 2014

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